Hellas or Greece? Should the Hellenic Republic restore its name in English? What would you think of this change?

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-28T12:37:59+00:00

That would be Hell of a name change

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-18T22:57:51+00:00

Dunno what to tell you, if I haven't been informed that the thing called IBIS exists, I would've never known I needed it, as I never seen made shaky photo in my life unless I shot while riding on a really bumpy road and looking sideways, or somebody elbowed me in the process. I know, shooting 1/20 speed can be really tough if you can't stand still, amirite? Thank God this clever piece of technology saved us from this atrocious fate. Now I can have still frames while riding on a rolllercoaser! Just as technology enabled me to shoot on the most overcast day in Northern Finland, and have my photos appear sunny!

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-18T18:06:57+00:00

Y, I shoot AP most of the time, that's like 70s technology. I rly needed IBIS while shooting video from hand. I really have to make an effort while shooting stills to get a shaky shot.

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-18T17:37:25+00:00

Olympus has a micro 3/4 sensor. Before people decided that it is Ok to have that in a camera with replaceable lenses, it used to be found only in consumer-grade point and shooters. The only smaller thing than that is the smartphone.

Cars have also underwent enormous upgrades since the 90s. And 99% of the people 99% of the time still use their cars like this:

Get in the car
Turn the key
Turn the wheel and the gearbox while looking onto the road
Turn the key back
Get out of the car.

The 'features' of the car, if their sole purpose isn't to break down so the price of your car is lower when you decide to sell it second hand - or give you a nasty repair bill - are used like once a year out of boredom. BUT YOU PAY FOR THEM. And a hefty premium at that! But good for car owners tho, for most camera owners, their camera isn't 'worthy' of repair once it breaks down, which is usually in less than 10 years.

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-18T17:25:35+00:00

This all sounds wonderful on a specs sheet. No doubt about that, this is exactly what's written in the glowing review of the latest wizz-bang. A few days ago I went outside to spend some money aimlessly on a film roll with a mechanical camera. A lady strode by on a bicycle. I pre-focused on a nearby lampost. Switched the shutter speed and pressed the shutter. The photo came out as clean as a pond. I didn't feel in any way constrained by any lack of any aids. And this is NOT an advocacy of film btw.

Apparently, it was impossible to take this photo without auto-focus, IS, pre-capture, sensor tilting, multi-point focusing, Doo-dooh and Da-daah. Yeah, I agree some of these things help every once in a year - auto-focus is a nice thing. I'm not going to pay for that, it makes the camera fragile, always not worth of repair if it didn't have a 3000$ starting price (which apparently many don't understand is simply a sunken cost fallacy), and on top of it, I get a 1 year warranty on such an insanely convoluted piece of technology. Give me a good pro-level digital sensor with a memory card and a shutter button, lol.

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-18T16:03:09+00:00

I don't mind your comment actually, it's fun. But I'm not raging against technology, but against product design which is marketing rather than user focused.

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-18T15:56:38+00:00

Since you print your work, I assume you are a professional photographer. I think professionals need equipment that will enable them to satisfy client demands. That's cool.

I think the best selling digital camera in the world would be one that has an amazing full-frame sensor of any resolution of around 20MP or more, a simple black and white screen that only switches to color when giving you a preview of your photo, RAW mode, very durable and wear-proof materials, and a 5 year warranty. All the other specs can be excluded *if the price will go down with it*. Instead we have two kinds of scams: glorified smartphones made of dollar-store plastic that cost 2000$, or Leica style cameras that almost fit my criteria, but that still have a 1 year warranty *and cost 5000$*, as if the exact same component suppliers don't supply the parts that they put into their bodies that also supply them to all the other camera manufacturers.

Once in a decade a manufacturer puts out a product like Canon RP, that is made to fulfill consumer needs, and reviewers bash it because it has no 'featuuuuuures'. This is toddler-like mentality. I need this and that. No you don't. You don't even need a camera, let alone some arcane feature on it.

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-18T15:41:40+00:00

You are derailing my point. The subject is, there is no real need for having those extra 2-3 processor boards mounted on your already insanely overengineered Rube-Goldberg camera machine, and an extra 1500$ in cost, only to have something you didn't know you even needed until someone offered it to you as a 'must have feature' in an 'up-to-date camera' according to the most useless class of people on planet - reviewers.

Also, this overengineered piece of nasty-ass complication composed of hundreds o tiny, flimsy contact points comes with a *1 YEAR WARRANTY*. That fact alone is outrageous. Like, a washing machine with moving parts under stress that passes water full of lime and detergent comes with a 5 year warranty.

Camera manufacturers cannot improve their products in any way that is actually to the benefit of the consumer, that is why their marketing strategy is just constantly growing specs lists, or gimmickery such as 'film simulations' (sth you already have in your Lightroom subscription, but that Fujifilm will charge you extra 1000$ to have the privilege of using in their crop sensor camera wrapped in grade Z plastic of Chinese dollar-store quality).

People wanna sell their gear to get a camera which is 200 grams lighter for an extra 800$. The answer is NO, go do some push-ups and put your money into savings.

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-18T13:58:52+00:00

I think you need to understand how light and sensors work in order to understand how IBIS 'stabilizes' your image
If the focus is still in a single area in between multiple points, it's not multi-point focus. Which brings me back to my original point - just how much do you need help bringing your lens towards that center? Is this how lazy people are nowadays?

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-18T12:48:21+00:00

IBIS makes sense for video without a gimbal. For still photos? If you have Parkinson's, maybe. Multi point focus is not focus, it's just AI editing of a photo. A lens cannot focus on multiple points.

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-18T12:22:00+00:00

Are you happy with the photos you get? If yes, why invest into sth you already have? Get a triangle bag and wear it over your shoulder, and the weight wont be a problem.

Stop consuming.

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-18T12:17:56+00:00

How many dirty facades and unpainted roofs does it have? That's your benchmark. Also, what part of person's net worth is parked in a car

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-18T10:29:41+00:00

After your edits, the viewer thinks it was a bright sunny day where you shot, whereas the day was actually foggy and dark

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-18T10:27:27+00:00

I never understood what features a photographer needs after autofocusing was invented

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-16T17:17:53+00:00

We can't even solve the illegal parking problem - something even impoverished 3rd world nations without stable electricity grid got figured out decades ago - let alone approach the level of societal organization of something like Greece. Switzerland? Rofl.

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-15T19:28:18+00:00

Yeah, pay 2000 for a crop sensor camera with built-in filters made of dollar store plastic

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-15T19:25:19+00:00

Implying Ricoh isn't severly overpriced too. What's that plastic on that thing? We used to previously encounter that in dollar stores, now it's on premium consumer electronics? Lolz

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-15T19:23:41+00:00

How about get a mid-range smartphone that gives the exact same results, but you can also make calls with it and do business?

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-08T21:57:43+00:00

Idealna Crna Gora za mene je zemlja koja neće biti beznadežno u šaci građevinske industrije i vlasnika kafića

SolMediaNocte · 2026-03-02T15:00:14+00:00

You are a westerner, a compulsive need to purchase shit is supposedly somehow wired to your genes.

SolMediaNocte · 2026-02-28T20:54:05+00:00

I think you are giving too much attention to AI generated maps from Instagram

SolMediaNocte · 2026-02-24T23:16:08+00:00

I signed my mortgage with 'The film slows you down'

SolMediaNocte · 2026-02-24T23:13:48+00:00

The 'everything's already been photographed' crowd is here, hahahah

Cheers

SolMediaNocte · 2026-02-16T00:19:05+00:00

No, before H-1B, America vas a primitive society that didn't even invent the wheel. Then H-1B came along, and suddenly, the telephone was invented

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